Archives for
September 2006

Tagged.com hasn't received any coverage on Mashable yet, largely because it caters to the pre-MySpace demographic of 13-20 year olds. However, today they announced some page customization features that are worth a mention. First off, they appear to h...

Facebook have just launched a feature called "Election 2006", which allows you to search for office candidates for the Senate, House, and Governorship. The site now has 1,600 profile pages for candidates running for House and Senate seats, as well as...

MySpace is becoming a major force in online shopping, according to the latest data out of Hitwise. MySpace was responsible for 2.53 percent of all U.S. upstream visits to the Shopping and Classifieds category for the week ending August 26th 2006, up ...

It might not get much coverage, but adults-only social networking is big business - market leader Adult Friend Finder, for instance, reports 20 million members. New entrant MyCircles.com isn't giving much away before its launch tomorrow, but it has a...

New York-based Cruxy, which launched officially on Wednesday, is a marketplace for independent content creators to sell their work. Filmmakers, videobloggers, podcasters, musicians, and designers can sell content through the Cruxy system, as well as ...

In a direct challenge to Apple's iTunes, MySpace has announced its intention to sell songs from the 3 million unsigned bands on MySpace.com. Even more surprising: the songs will be sold as unprotected MP3s, free from DRM. MySpace co-founder Chris DeW...

A profile of Faceparty, written by Sid Yadav. Faceparty is one of the oldest social networking sites still in operation, with its launch dating back to August 2000. Currently serving 6 million users with approximately 5,000 new registrations daily, F...

Yet more MySpace codes - in preparation for the new football season, Fox Sports has created a sports headline widget for MySpace users. The Flash powered widget is being promoted on their MySpace page (more MySpace marketing), which currently lists 1...

Florida-based social network Multiply, which reports nearly 3 million users and $6 million in funding, will officially announce its social bookmarking tool tomorrow. The platform already supports blogs, video, photos and music, but the bookmarking fe...

ChaCha, a social search engine that pays users to find answers to questions, is set to launch in Alpha today. As well as traditional algorithmic search, ChaCha offers the ability to have an on-site IM conversation with a "guide", who will then go out...

Consulting is back! Since I'm absolutely overloaded with requests these days, the folks at ACS have stepped up to offer consulting through Mashable with my oversight. The expert team is offering guidance on Web 2.0, new media, social software, social...

Facebook, America's number two social network behind MySpace, launched a redesign and two new features early this morning, allowing a user's activities on the site to be tracked. First off, they've added News Feed, a box on your homepage that display...

ProSiebenSat1 Media, Germany's largest commercial TV company, has bought a 30 per cent stake in MyVideo, the so-called "German YouTube". Romania-based MyVideo Broadband also runs smaller video sites in Poland, France and Spain, but the German service...

The biggest criticism of YouTube is usually that they won't be able monetize their massive audience (100 million YouTube videos per day). However, they're stepping up their game, revealing this weekend that they've recruited the former Yahoo Treasure...

Trakzor, one of the world's most popular MySpace trackers, just released a 2.0 version, with a complete redesign and a bunch of new features (it appears to have gone live today). A MySpace tracker, for those who don't follow this market, is a tool th...

There isn't much to fledgling review site Soapbox right now, but today they launched an interesting feature that deserves a mention. While the previous version of the service allowed you to write reviews on the site itself, the new version lets you w...

Another video sharing site gets funded: New York startup Motionbox will announce today that they've raised $4.2M in Series A funding from Canaan Partners, SAS Investors and ITOCHU Corporation. The cash will be used to build out Motionbox’s technology...

As I suspected, Facebook users aren't too happy about the new features rolled out yesterday (see Facebook’s Facelift - An Invasion of Privacy?). However, the backlash has been more than a mere grumbling - a petition against the new features has been ...

Rojo, the feed reader that launched back in 2004 and saw mixed results, is set to announce its acquisition by blogging company SixApart. Rojo will become part of the Vox blogging platform, allowing users to browse new content and reblog it. The value...

Big Fish Games, a Seattle-based casual gaming company, will release a service in beta today called My Big Fish Games, connecting a MySpace-style social network with a new affiliate scheme. Users have their own profile pages called "game spaces" where...

Two startups that I've mentioned here previously, Crowdstorm and Dovetail, launch today. Crowdstorm is a shopping platform that measures the buzz around products, complete with a social network - the public beta began this morning. It takes on Kabood...

Wink 2.0, the new version of Wink's people-powered search engine, is set to go live very shortly. For those who aren't familiar with it, Wink combines a Digg-like voting system with search, allowing users to tag and rate search results. In addition t...

London-based Bubblesnaps, which started in March 2006, just relaunched with a focus on social networks. The idea is very similar to Zingfu - you upload a photo and then add a speech bubble or thought cloud before sending it to friends or posting it t...

California-based Faketown is a 6-year old "social game" that quietly relaunched in mid-August, although they've yet to announce the change publicly. The site centers around a virtual chat room, and allows users to create, buy, sell, trade and share v...

Treemo, which launches today, is a social network and media sharing site with a focus on cellphones. Formerly known as HyperMob, the Seattle-based startup also has a social mission - they're encouraging users to recycle their old digital cameras and ...

Another day, another video sharing site gets funded: Arizona-based vSocial has taken $1.5 million in Series A funding led by Consor Capital, according to a regulatory filing. No further details were released. You'll remember that competitor Motionbox...

Xanga, the popular social networking site, has been ordered to pay a $1 million civil penalty for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The penalty is the largest ever assessed by t...

Houston, Texas-based ChosenVIP, which launches next month, wants to put a new spin on exclusive social networking. But unlike aSmallWorld, it isn't an entirely closed community. In fact, ChosenVIP will allow anyone to sign up and create a profile, af...

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg just published an open letter to users apologizing for the privacy problems around the new News Feed and Mini Feed features (see Facebook's Facelift). Zuckerberg says they were trying to provide members with a stream of inf...

Webwag, another new ajax startpage, has announced its US version. The French company, founded by successful businessman Franck Poisson, joins Netvibes and Pageflakes - making for a trio of European start pages. Webwag has opened headquarters in Palo ...

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